Weekend Warrior 3/14/14

It was a big week for gaming, with two heavily anticipated titles, Titanfall and Dark Souls II, hitting store shelves. A lot of us here will be pouring hours into both this weekend while others fight to finish up South Park: The Stick of Truth. What about you?

Jeff Marchiafava: I made the potential mistake of starting Dark Souls II this week, and am looking forward to putting a bunch of time into it this weekend. Maybe “looking forward” isn’t the right term – I am prepared to putting a bunch of time into it this weekend. My knight is already as dead as you can get in the game, so at least I don’t have to worry about that anymore. Despite its punishing nature, I’m already enjoying Dark Souls II quite a bit – I think I have Stockholm syndrome.

Andrew Reiner: If I don't finish South Park: The Stick of Truth this weekend, I'm probably going to take out my anger on Game Informer's intern group on Monday. I won't physically harm them, mind you, just load up their week with lots of meaningless filing and paperwork. If I get through that game, I'm moving on to Dark Souls II. Of course, Titanfall will be played extensively at night.

Mike Futter: I will be dropping Titans, for sure. But I’ll also be diving into the back catalog to play Infamous 2: Festival of Blood. I love the series, but never got around to playing the DLC. With Infamous: Second Son out next Friday, the time is right to step into Cole’s snazzy pants one last time.

Ben Hanson: This weekend I'm going back to my home town to hang out with some old friends with a couple of key games in mind. I'm bringing Avalon, the table-top game that has invaded my life in the best way, and Game & Wario for the Wii U. Avalon is brilliant (just buy it) and Game & Wario is really smart in that it allows for a handful of games in a party setting that don't require a crap-load of controllers. You only need the one GamePad and you pass it around. Have a good weekend!

Kyle Hilliard: As far as video games go, time will be split between Yoshi’s New Island, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and Titanfall. I’m guessing it will be a 5%, 10%, 85% split respectively. Otherwise, it’s nice enough to go outside and not freeze here in Minnesota, so I might do a little bit of that.

Cameron Koch: My family is paying me a visit this weekend, so it looks like I will be cramming in most of my game time (a.k.a. Titanfall time) tonight. Other than that, I’m looking forward to getting out of my apartment now that the weather is actually above freezing.

Tim Turi: This weekend I’ll continue my antics in Titanfall, hopefully rodeo’ing a few big lugs into oblivion and becoming more of a threat myself in my Titan. I also hope to finish up Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 which I’ve been enjoying despite its inferiority to the previous game. If I finish up LoS 2, I plan on diving into the unforgiving world of Dark Souls 2.

Isaac Federspiel: This weekend I’m going to try and finish up South Park: The Stick of Truth so I have a clean plate before Infamous: Second Son comes out. Recent Heroes of the Storm trailers have gotten me itching to revisit the moba-genre, which I’m generally bad at, so I might bite the bullet and prepare for a long League of Legends update. There’s also the chance that I’ll feel the urge to jump into Hearthstone and see what it has to offer now that it’s out of beta.

Spring Break!! Right now I'm plucking away at Dark Souls II which I rented the other day. Deciding whether I want to shell out $60 for it has been a tough choice but those limited edition steel cases were looking awful perty today. Other than that, I might play some Lightning Returns, DK: Tropical Freeze, and Tales of Vesperia. Other than games, I might continue watching Attack on Titan which has been a surprisingly entertaining anime that was recommended to me the other day.

I would totally want to play Titan Fall but I don't have an Xbox one so I'll probably sick to some Mlb the Show on the vita. Still trying to break the home run record with Prince Fielder lol. I have actually been inspired to play The Last of Us a second time and maybe even some Thief.

Wishing I had Dark Souls 2. Grrrr! Maybe getting it if I play my cards right..In the interim I will be playing Fable II with my niece who is 8 because I like to teach her family values:) I will also be working at new job-yay for gainful employment. No longer am I a detriment to society. I am saving for either the Titanfall Xbox One bundle, PS4, or WiiU WindWaker Bundle. I don't know which one to get first. Leaning towards my biased Xbox. Heart says WiiU. Universe says PS4.

Battlefield 4 and ghost multiplayer for me. Maybe more NBA. Preparing next week for Infamous Second son. Boy I can't wait. Plus it's a quiet weekend so some fun time with family. Another great weekend.

Well, my copy of South Park: The Stick of Truth arrives tomorrow, so I shall be getting into that on my PS3 this week. Got MGS5: Ground Zeroes on pre-order for later this month, and apart from South Park: TSOT, I will be playing Kerbal Space Program.

Well I was going to be playing the God of War saga but it seems there is a freezing problem that all three games in the collection have. Yeah, thanks for the buggy collection you pricks. Next time make sure the game is playable before moving onto your next project, pricks.

This will be the first work free, travel free weekend that I've had in over a month, so I intend to enjoy it! Tonight I'm going to play Bully on Xbox 360. I've beaten the PS2 version so many times that I've lost count. And I hated the Wii version. So I thought now would be a good time to try the 360 version. And I'm probably going to download this indie title that I've been eyeing on Steam for about 2 years.
Also going to a movie with my family tomorrow (not sure which movie yet), and then treating our son out for some Ice Cream and Subway. Might even take a trip to GameStop (I try to buy at least 1 game a week). And for the rest of the weekend? Probably more Bully, Assassin's Creed 4, and maybe something from my ever growing backlog. Oh, and I'll be watching some Dark Souls 2 gameplay via Twitch.